Bio

Kirsty was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, grew up next to a field and has now moved to Whitechapel, London following completion of a degree in American Literature and Creative Writing at UEA in Norwich. After serving on the board of editors for the Tulane Review during a year abroad in New Orleans, she decided to start a small literary journal, the contents of which would be generated by a 'spur word'. She put together the first issue of Fuselit, 'Demo', in October 2005, and sold it from a stall on the university campus for 50p. She still edits it to this day, although it has grown in ambition since then and now includes a CD and additional booklet with every issue.

Kirsty's first Fuselit editorial

While Fuselit occupies a lot of her free time, she also regularly performs her own poetry in London, has been published in a wide variety of magazines and websites, and, along with Jon Stone, edits the ever-growingstream of Sidekick Books multi-poet anthologies. She has co-run a number of poetry nights, including book abnd magazine launches, and regularly reports on unusual literary goings-on via the online journal Cut Out & Keep.

Kirsty comperes the launch of Fuselit: Aquarium at the Betsey Trotwood

Her interests come in evangelistic bursts - she will regularly have an entire week of singing skater Johnny Weir's praises, before embarking the following week on an in-depth investigation of the life and loves of Nathaniel Hawthorne. More often than not, all roads lead to Shakira. Her poetry emerges in a similar way - conceived, written and edited in one short burst of inspiration. As a result, it's often quite compulsive and takes the form of a colourful, fast-paced reaction to something experienced or read. This reading matter ranges from short hagiographies to 1950s texts on perversion to the doomed adventures of Wile E Coyote.

From an April 2010 interview: "I find myself writing from the perspectives of people who find themselves in impossible situations — often men, because I find something worth fighting over in the pressures that get lumped on that role. Certain subjects push my buttons — repression, loneliness, frustration, ludicrous ties and stupid rules, especially those that are self-imposed. But there’s always something new and intriguing that’ll pull me in a different direction. Extra emphasis on the ludicrous."

Dr Fulminare's Casenotes:"An industrious skivvy who obeys readily. Can be persuaded to fetch the most preposterous ingredients from afar at a moment's notice. Sometimes rebukes me for being too harsh (!) Spends a goodly sum of her meagre allowance on unnatural dyes for her hair, a practice I cannot endorse. Terminally disorganised."

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Books & Pamphlets

What To Do, Happenstance Press, 2011
£4.00, 32pp

"This pamphlet is full of characters in trouble. The energy that drives the poems won't settle for resolution, only the sense that however bizarre the action or injury, it has you by the throat and isn't letting go. This is, as they say, something else."

Short collection of co-authored poems written according to the rules of various tabletop games, including dominoes, battleships and jenga.

No, Robot, No!, Forest Publications, 2010
£2.00, 36pp

Co-written with Jon Stone under the pseudonyms of Eve Bishop and Roy Marvin, this is a mixture of collaborative and individual poems celebrating "our anthropometallic friends" and their all-too-human qualities.